When Leadership Demotivates Employees

(This is a part 2 of this series)





These bosses are being deceitful and disingenuous. This is not leadership.  Employee surveys should have a clear rationale, and if they’re anonymous, an explanation of how names are kept confidential. There should also be a strategy on how to communicate the survey results to the employees, along with future plans for action. Otherwise, leaders risk losing employees’ trust. 

The numbers speak for themselves. In current research, only 24 percent of employees who took a survey with no follow-up considered themselves engaged.

Holding Leaders Accountable

One way to show that leaders care about being a good, authentic leader is to be accountable. If you make a mistake, communicate with employees about what happened, recognize the mistake’s effect on them, take responsibility for it and explain why it shouldn’t happen again.  If you are late on a project, resolve to better prioritize and make it right.  To prevent recurring problems, set up systems designed for accountability.  

Leadership is hard enough without making it worse by demotivating the employees you are trying to help. 



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